ADB helping Pay TV operators deliver on the promise of personal TV
The graphyne2 personal TV software platform from ADB supports multiscreen and companion screen experiences and is the latest example of how the company is helping Pay TV operators deliver personal TV....
View ArticleDelivering the UEX each of us wants, whether we are digital natives or...
Accedo has conducted consumer research showing that ‘digital newcomers’ and digital natives want to watch television in different ways, confirming the need for more differentiated user experiences....
View ArticleThere are still plenty more ways to monetize multiscreen viewing
Multiscreen TV costs money – to the service providers, at least. In this interview, Ed Terino, CEO of SeaChange International, explains how his company can help increase revenues on different screens,...
View ArticleDelivering an effortless TV user experience, and turning viewers into consumers
Pay TV operators must ensure that even an advanced UI is designed for consumers who want effortless entertainment. Here Patrick Vos, CEO of Zappware, explains how his company has achieved this with...
View ArticleHow IBC delivered the perfect conference, with big vision and ‘down in the...
The IBC conference delivered at every level in September, from the strategic vision of Sir Martin Sorrell (offering a global view as CEO of WPP) and Dana Strong (on driving change at Liberty Global in...
View ArticleOver 80% of TF1’s biggest TV advertisers use its programmatic exchange,...
TF1 does not see itself as a broadcaster anymore, with Phillipe Boscher, Head of Marketing and Business Development at TF1 Publicité Digital, describing the company as a content marketplace – and one...
View ArticleMixing SSP and direct sourced ads in the same advertising pod: another big...
The integration of the FreeWheel decisioning engine and the StickyADS.tv supply side platform will give broadcasters more confidence to go programmatic. As Thomas Bremond, MD Europe at FreeWheel,...
View ArticleWith millennials and Gen Z firmly onboard its digital services, Medialaan...
Demonstrating the success of its digital strategy, Belgian broadcaster Medialaan, which covers the Flanders region, has 1.3 million customers who have signed-in to watch its long-form content online....
View ArticleThe characteristics shared by broadcasters who are pioneering private...
Broadcasters who are pioneering the use of private programmatic exchanges share some characteristics, according to Massimo de Magistris, General Manager EMEA at StickyADS.tv. They are all searching...
View ArticleAdvanced advertising is only possible with a cooperative ecosystem
Advanced advertising is an important opportunity for Pay TV operators and the first thing they must do is start collecting data about viewing and customers. But as Luc Vignon, Director at SFR Regie in...
View ArticleSynchronised media capabilities mean HbbTV platforms can deliver DAI and...
The growing importance of HbbTV for free-to-air platform operators and broadcasters, and the sophistication of services using HbbTV 2.0.1, including support for dynamically inserted IP advertisements...
View ArticleTier-One platform operator has signed up for Android set-top boxes, with ARRIS
The latest version of Android TV, and especially the Operator Tier version, has resulted in much higher interest in Android-based STBs among Tier-One platform operators, according to Anthony...
View ArticleThe Pay TV differentiator: all content in one place and no...
Consumers are becoming frustrated navigating multiple apps and pay-walls to access their content, while user studies have now shown that imposing a single kind of navigation and content discovery...
View ArticleNeotion helps pioneer satellite-delivered multiscreen TV and audience...
The solution developed by Neotion (gateway), Eutelsat (bandwidth) and Broadpeak (nanoCDN) to enable multiscreen video to be delivered into homes over satellite will be deployed by a Tier-1 European Pay...
View ArticleSoftware-defined video helps TV providers navigate the HDR standards war and...
The value of software-defined video is being highlighted by the HDR standards war, with AWS Elemental helping customers not only encode their content so it is HDR-capable but also convert from one HDR...
View ArticleMore UEX choices in a pre-integrated multiscreen ecosystem, and cardless...
Conax already had a pre-integrated, end-to-end multiscreen ecosystem solution (Conax Xtend) but Conax Arena gives service providers more flexibility, especially when creating their UEX using...
View ArticleThe Elevate SaaS arrives in Europe, including an option for OTT apps and...
Espial used IBC to introduce its Elevate SaaS offer to Europe, a multi-tenant hosted cloud platform that covers operations, monitoring, analytics and UEX, among other things, across managed STBs and...
View ArticleHow microservices bring the best out of cloud video operations
A microservices software architecture breaks applications into smaller component parts that developers can work on independently, resulting in faster changes with lower risk, and so improved business...
View ArticleFactors that make media companies build in-house or use OVPs for their...
Economics is not necessarily the primary motivation when a media company decides how to deploy next-generation multiscreen services. Tom Munro, CEO at Verimatrix, notes that sometimes you just need to...
View ArticleVideo processing implications when working with CMAF, multiple HDR specs and...
While CMAF is an important attempt to converge streaming formats, there are still differences in how MPEG-DASH and Apple handle captioning and encryption, placing emphasis on JIT packaging so you can...
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